notplants @notplants@sunbeam.city

[black writing on white background, reads: "Weak? I? Directly descended from the sun?]

from https://www.are.na/block/7828295
from Anne Stevenson, Stone Milk; “The Myth of Medea”

instead, I found some screenshots of the projects from the wayback machine, and wrote some short text about the projects

it felt good to revisit and give some love to the past and past version of myself in this small way

change is constant,
different moments are connected in unexpected ways,
curious what will be happening seven years from now

yesterday I updated my personal website to fix my three oldest projects, from 2015, that had broken links because they were deployed to a server that hasn't been running in years

https://mfowler.info/work/howdoispeak_archive - an app which analyzes the words you use in your text messages and tells you things about yourself

https://mfowler.info/work/the_capitalist_tshirt - a website where you can pay to have a number printed on a shirt, framed print, or booty shorts, showing how much you paid for it

https://mfowler.info/work/truespeak - a website where you you can come out to the world as yourself by uploading your text message history to a publicly viewable page

the links were broken because they were originally deployed to AWS and a few years ago I deleted by AWS account

I kept thinking that someday I might spin up the server again to run the projects somewhere again and properly archive the projects, but yesterday, after a few years, I realized that was never going to happen

enjoyed imagining fun/interesting events or connections I "missed" due to missed messages etc. as positive indicators of my systems supporting me with space to rest and helping me to cultivate peace and focus for the things which are already in my life and which already often feel like too much to give my full presence and attention to

accidentally logged on to bandcamp.com and now I am a dj

https://drumpoetcommunity.bandcamp.com/track/manuel-tur-bubble-wrap-2

some forgotten cereal in the pantry had some moths in it,
which on one level seems kind of gross,
but also maybe its fine
(a short poem)

what do people think about eating moths?

"to depend on each other is to become infrastructure"
- @aliceyuanzhang

people who join here and post beautiful things not directly related to computers is such a gift,
thank you

Invitation For P4P Rust Learning Group

https://rust.commoninternet.net/
(invitation in website form)

for any folks who share dreams of non-extractive infrastructure, and are working in Rust, or interested in learning about Rust,

I started a public matrix channel with @glyph,

I hope it can be a space for sharing rust confusions, asking questions, sharing resources, encouraging each other's work and deepening our understanding of the language

if you're interested, you can join via this link,
https://matrix.to/#/%23p4p-rust-learning-group:matrix.org

beginners and experts both welcome (questions and guidance both appreciated)

there are no time requirements for joining, if you join feel free to participate whenever you have energy and availability

the term p4p means "peer for peer", and comes from the scuttlebutt community

imagined programming as a sort of elaborate finger dance